BFC's boring me again now.

Au contraire my Tory friend.

If I wanted to start a row I'd do it with ease.</p>



I'm happy to admit I'm not nearly as dedicated a fan as many on here, I value my time a little too much to eat any old **** served up to me. But I'm exactly the kind of fan the club need to keep interested, the difference between 11,000 and 7,000. The difference between growth and gradual decline.</p>

 

You'll forgive me.........

.......if I don't lose any sleep over not being welcome by you won't you?</p>

 

I'm not trying to influence anyone mate.

We're all individuals with different criteria and are free to come and go as we please. But the attendances speak for themselves and I don't think GS is going about the right way to turn it around.

 

See you're doing it again!

You just can't help yourself can you.

 

that's what we've got so stop crying.

At the end of the day the club is recovering from receivership and although people on here say they 'know' that money is available, nobody actually does, or if there is, how much. We don't suddenly just bounce back from receivership and get cash rich overnight.

It does take time to recover and in all realism, we ought to be grateful that we've managed to recover our financial footing and achieve promotion at the same time. I would suggest that we're a good season ahead of where we ought to be - we did tremendously well last year, and we're doing ok now. We need a season to establish ourselves, with what we have, in this division. We've lost two games and people start pissing their pants scared of relegation (and this despite the fact that an incompetant goalkeeper has cost us the points in both matches).

We're not going down, we're not going up. We need that for a little while - we add the right players who come along at the right time, over a period of some years. How long did it take Danny Wilson before things got really exciting? It's worth the wait. If it's not worth it to you - who cares? I hope the club sticks to it's guns, they're doing the sensible thing.

 

Have you been to the pub for your lunch?

You need to try some solids next time mate.</p>

 

"Who cares?" Are you kidding?

You need to look at the attendance figures mate. If you think we're progressing with a shrinking turnover then it's to be hoped GS has a bit more business acumen than you.</p>



&quot;We're not going down&quot; LOL. </p>

 

It's the peace after the last storm and before the next one syndrome

Promotion euphoria following 4 years in a shitty cloggers league, not quite matched up to by our expectations of life in the Championship.</p>

I believe there are several possible reasons for this,</p>

The clutches of administration are still fresh in the management memory</p>

The club might well still be teetering on a financial brink</p>

As a result we are doing our best on as little an outlay as possible, in what is our first season back in a new tough league.</p>

Results aren't good, but we are higher than the position most of us would settle for - if we can hold it.</p>

We don't want to waste cash on people who are no better than what we have got, yet we can't really afford who we really want.</p>

There may be resources put by for an emergency spend come New year if we really have to.</p>

All this boils down to not a lot emitting from the club, cos really there isn't a lot to say - but I am sure, as I have said before, that the promotion we earned will not be let go of lightly.</p>

For us fans though, I agree, it's all gone a bit flat, and it's a crucial time for losing interest. And although I agree your sentiments, I believe that it's important to slog on a bit until things come good. And that could be as early as this weekend, or not for another week ot two......or perhaps not even then.</p>

 

Look at the table?

The one that shows us 2 points off relegation?

 

Very true. I agree mate.

 

I'm the same mate, for a lot of the same reasons and some more.

I hate the fact that, pre-Premiership, we were all fans.

Then we had the 'glory hunters' of the Premiership.
Then we had 'hangers on' who stayed when we went down.
Then we had 'die hards' when we went down again.
Then we had the 'hard core' or 'proper fans' who endured the seasons in the wilderness.
Then we had the 'glory hunters' again for Cardiff.
Now we have the 'stayaways', who seem to be 'glory hunters' waiting to happen if they have the audacity to turn up to a game.

All this to show that person x is a much better fan than person y - it gets on my nerves and I can't be bothered any more.

 

Are you bipolar or do you just have a short span of attention?

There's no way we're in a relegation position - it's only October. If we live week to week, one result to the next, panic buying whatever might be out there whenever we ride a couple of defeats, god - I hope GS has more business acumen than you.

OH NO SHRINKING ATTENDANCES. OH NO. PANIC! WE'RE CLEARLY GOING TO GET RELEGATED!

Pull yourself together woman. If we take three points on Saturday you'll be as happy as the rest of us.

 

That's right luvvy - we're on about "panic buying.".

And anyway it's only October, everybody knows we're brill in November, and all we have to do is wait and lots of money will come in from somewhere or other because that's what happens in football and players will want to come for ten bob and we'll stay up again and again and again and we can put our replica shirts on and sing BRF bites yer legs there's no way we'll go down ever.</p>



All together now! - &quot;If you're happy and you know it clap your hands.....&quot;</p>

 

FAO Windy

So imagine I am Mr Shepherd, what do I have to do to make you the floating supporter happy? This is a serious question BTW.

 

id say show at least SOME ambition and give the fans something to get excited about

McPhail hit the nail right on the head before he left and his words should have been a warning to us all what were were in for!

I honestly think that if we had pushed the boat out just a little to land Chopra and possibly another defender we would be in the top 4 now! What we are being served up is good football but a very successful team has been within a whisker away and GS and AR have failed to spot that! I think they were frightened of doing too well tbh and getting out of their league too quick (so to speak).

We are now destined to a season of not managing to stay up but a season of scraping through because Shep will not spend a feckin cracker this year im sure! Trouble is after this year we are going to lose our best players who will have ambition unlike GS!

 

RE: id say show at least SOME ambition and give the fans something to get excited about

Trueeeeeeeeee....

The opportunity has been and gone. Shoestring budgets rarely, if ever, keep you up - and if you get away with it this year - we'll be fecked next.

Ready for a new guard methinks. That is, just to take us to the next level not that we won't say a big thanks to those that have got us back to this point. They just don't seem to have the resources required.

Can't we find a bent Russian Oil baron?

(Y)

 

And the fickleness of the fans starts!

Strange as I gave it til November before people started turning but it's only just October.

Dwindling crowds.....yet up on last season and up on the 1997/98 season. And the best football we've played since that promotion season.

Yes it would be nice to sign players, football fans always want their team to sign new players but 1. there is a transfer embargo and 2. Not exactly much available on loan.

 

we could have rode the wave of euphoria

and kept everything going but i fear as we slide down the league and players are playing their hearts out without getting results, they will soon start to have the faith knocked out of them. I hope im wrong but the saying "losing becomes a habit" the same as "winning becomes a habit" didnt come from knowhere.

 

So by showing ambition you mean

giving greedy lovely person Mcphail his 10K a week, Chopra the same?

Lets walk before we run, 4th from bottom whilst not gaining a civic reception could be just as pivotal in Barnsley FC history as that famous day last May in Cardiff.

 

not bothered mcphail left but chops we knew what he could do

and is exactly what we have missed up front!